535112 - Impossible to open plain text attachment

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 533462

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, defect)

Description

[Stanislas]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; fr; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Thunderbird/3.0

When I have a mail with a plain text attchment, I cannot open it : Thunderbird doesn't recognize the file type : the popup to choose the program to use doesn't recognize the file as plain text but as imap link. Therefore, depending on the program choosed, either I have an error message ("bad syntax" with windows notepad) or the program opens an empty window (notepad++, openoffice...)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a message with a plin text attachment
2 [review]. Double click on the attachment
Actual Results:  
TB asks to choose a program (it doesn't suggest any) but this program cannot open the attachment

Expected Results:  
The program should have opened the attachment

If you choose the option "display the attachment in message", the attchment displays correctly. But the double-click still doesn't work.

It seems to happen only with plain text (*.txt) attachment. It doesn't happens with *.csv, *.pdf, *.rtf ...

I tried the nightly builds (thunderbird-3.0.1pre.en-US.win32.installer.exe and thunderbird-3.1a1pre.en-US.win32.installer.exe) but the bug is still there.

If you save the attachment, you can open it easily.

Comment 2

[Stanislas]

Sorry, bad research in bugzilla, I didn't find bug 533462

Comment 3

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Sorry, bad research in bugzilla, I didn't find bug 533462

That's ok. at least you searched :-)